Environmental determinants of leech assemblage patterns in lotic and lenitic habitats

Limnologica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 516-524

  Kubova N ^a   Schenkova J ^a   Horsak M ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Environmental predictors; Hirudinida; Lotic and lenitic habitats; Prey availability; Response curves; Species diversity and composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LEECH; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

CLITELLATA; HIRUDINIDA;

EID: 84880699964     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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